Local News in Brief : Police Reforms Will Be Studied
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The Long Beach City Council agreed Tuesday to study a proposal by a group of clergymen who demanded reforms in the Police Department to address allegations of racism and brutality.
Calling themselves the “Concerned Clergy of Long Beach,” more than a dozen ministers and rabbis asked the council to beef up human relations training for officers, open a police substation in a minority neighborhood and create a citizen oversight panel to hear police brutality complaints.
Their demands arise from a Jan. 14 incident in which a white police officer allegedly cursed at a black man and pushed his head through a plate glass window during a confrontation. The incident was taped for NBC’s “Today Show,” which was doing a story on an anti-police brutality group that was conducting a “sting” operation to demonstrate police abuses.
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